To follow-up on our article 15 great animated gifs on Dribbble, it makes sense that we look at how we can make such gifs as swiftly as possible. We will go over this in two separate articles. We’ll first see in this article how to quickly turn a rendered video file into a gif without having to use Photoshop. In the second part we’ll use some ExtendScript to speed-up the process of rendering in After Effects and opening the video file in Photoshop.

Dribbble is a really great place to get exposure as a designer. It’s also a really good place to showcase your animation and motion graphics skills. Here’s some great examples of how a simple looping gif can quickly demonstrate the feeling of an animation.